Politics

Hollister City Council members Tuesday will consider accepting a trained K-9 from the local Wonder Woofs program along with a $10,000 grant from the state to equip the dog.

Two developers have approached the city about trying to purchase the grassy plot on the 400 block of San Benito Street.

The Hollister council this week appointed Shari Stevenson to fill a brief vacancy in the District 2 seat on the council.

Hollister officials have estimated that law enforcement would cost $113,400 for a 2013 motorcycle rally – an amount that is less than one-third of the bill for security at the most recent biker event in 2008.

San Juan Bautista council members will consider approving the city's involvement in a fire contract with Hollister following the recent approval by the county board.

Don’t expect serious talks to pick up until at least 2016 on law enforcement consolidation in San Benito County.

Director of Development Services Bill Avera on Tuesday informed the Hollister City Council that the California Department of Finance had disapproved the $140,000 of budgeted payments from the RDA’s successor agency to the Hollister Downtown Association and Economic Development Corp.

The public is invited to the grand reopening of John Z.

San Benito Health Care District officials and representatives of Insight Health this week declared that Measure X has received voter approval in the Nov. 5 election, issuing statements on their next efforts to transfer ownership of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital to the Michigan-based healthcare...

Despite no related agenda items listed on two issues—a possible closure of Nash Road near the high school and homeless residents living along the San Benito River bed—county supervisors Tuesday held extended talks on the topics.